2. We do very wickedly and foolishly when we forget God. It was a sin in
Asa that he trusted to physicians and not to God. If we must have a physician,
let it be so, but still let us go to our God first of all; and, above all,
remember that there can be no power to heal in medicine of itself; the healing
energy must flow from the divine hand. O Lordmy God. Observe the covenant name which faith uses—my God. Thrice
happy is he who can claim the Lord himself to be his portion. Note how David’s
faith ascends the scale; he sang “O Lord” in the first verse, but it is “O Lord my God” in the second. Heavenly
heart-music is an ascending thing, like the pillars of smoke which rose from
the altar of incense. I cried unto thee. I could hardly pray, but I
cried; I poured out my soul as a little child pours out its desires. I cried to
my God: I knew to whom to cry; I did not cry to my friends, or to any arm of
flesh. Hence the sure and satisfactory result—Thou hast healed me. I
know it. I am sure of it. I have the evidence of spiritual health within me
now: glory be to thy name! Every humble suppliant with God who seeks release
from the disease of sin shall speed as well as the psalmist did, but those who
will not so much as seek a cure, need not wonder if their wounds putrefy and
their soul dies.
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